By Devin Simmons
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday March 26, 2003
UA police recovered a stolen university golf cart in the Integrated Learning Center courtyard Monday, reports stated.
Two officers patrolling the courtyard at 1500 E. University Blvd. found the cart, which was stolen last week from outside the Scoreboard Cafˇ in Arizona Stadium, 540 N. Vine Ave.
The cart's front end was dented, the headlights were broken, and the brake lines looked as if they had caught fire. Due to tire marks that were discovered on the stairwell, scuffmarks on the ILC wall and the amount of damage to the undercarriage, police believed someone drove the cart down the stairs and into the wall, reports stated.
After dusting the cart for fingerprints, police pushed it into the service elevator and brought it to the ground level. The cart was held at the UAPD station until a Cafˇ employee came to claim it, reports stated.
A Tucson man was warned for criminal trespassing after he yelled at vigil participants outside the Islamic Center of Tucson, 901 E. First St., Monday, reports stated.
The man approached the group, flailing his arms and demanding they take down a U.S. flag from the wall. He told them they did not have a right to display it, reports stated.
The vigil-goers told the man they would call police if he did not leave, but he stayed and dared them to make the call. When they called police, he walked away toward East University Boulevard, reports stated.
Police searched the area, found the man and warned him not to trespass, reports stated.
A female student told police a man looked up her skirt on the fifth floor of the Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd., Monday, reports stated.
The student was sitting at a desk with her feet up between 3:15 and 4:00 p.m., when she saw the man look under her desk. She went to the main desk and called the police, reports stated.
As the student talked to police in the lobby, she saw the man walk down the stairs and pointed him out to the officers. They approached him and asked if he had come from the fifth floor. He said he had been on the fifth floor, and that he was waiting for a friend and looking for some neuromuscular books, reports stated.
The man was not a UA student, so officers told him if he returned to the library, he would be cited for trespassing, reports stated.
A UA employee discovered a broken window on the south side of the UofA BookStore Monday, reports stated.
An operations manager told police he had passed by the scene 20 minutes earlier and did not notice any damage.
The window display appeared undisturbed and it looked as if nothing had been stolen from the store, reports stated.
Police took pictures of the damage and turned them in as evidence. They have no suspects or witnesses, reports stated.
Several locked drawers in the reception area of the University Medical Cancer Center were forced open over the weekend, reports stated.
An employee at the center said that this was the second time this had happened in the last few weeks.
The 10 drawers contained an undisclosed amount of cash and money bags in them, but none of it was taken, reports stated.
A Tucson man was arrested for having an outstanding warrant after police found him sleeping on a sidewalk outside a campus residence hall Saturday, reports stated.
The man, who was sleeping outside Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall, 922 E. Fourth St., was intoxicated, police reports stated.
The man told police that he was just resting.
A check revealed that he had a warrant for failing to appear in court for disorderly conduct and criminal damage charges. He was taken to Pima County Jail and warned to stay off campus, reports stated.
A UA student was arrested on charges of marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession in a campus residence hall Sunday, reports stated.
A UA employee called police after she reported smelling burning marijuana coming from the student's room in Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., reports stated.
A responding officer smelled the odor coming from the room and knocked on the door, reports stated.
The student told the officer he wasn't going to let him in until he said why he was there. The officer told the student he smelled burning marijuana, but the student said he had not been smoking anything, reports stated.
The student opened the door and said he had drug paraphernalia in the room. After he turned it over to the officer, police asked if they could search the room. The student said, "Go ahead, but I already gave you everything," reports stated.
The officer found a 48-pack of beer in the room, and the student admitted that he was not 21 years old.
The student was cited on drug charges and warned for having spirituous liquor while underage. The officer took the paraphernalia into evidence and threw out the beer, reports stated.
Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department Records. For a complete list of UAPD activity, the daily resumˇ can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.